The Sun. — London, England, 1818-12-31 00:00:00

~x ,- ,- 3 _____- S'l'U~b' t oPP °1411 : :c t and G l°. sful Exertie°l )n, which b6‘. e ambitions ue, as ba cl4 ho g nt, 'are risll an d lic FIVE PER CENTS. Saturday , 63 f. c. Ilse the I ' 6l lir to execu te o myself t, moNEy R. rincipl Attcr loo Clyde. Ma r estine Ming, M r ; quill Mul- P 12s. 17s* : ad Jersql 1011.11. 0%1' 4. t .s after 1818. rs of 50' ►sere ChIC b e Joor° ver lIP°I3 )r r 1 bei °s ,e, o r 01 )istrati o ~ • lie Chian° to DEC. 26• ;otinci lo( Iced, 0 1 h, %cher° the Coa I Collec: service t b e Coln' not bee in forme the e, i ng ( 0 1 : 43 on of I" IT. DE JAureottaT, Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Abbe Louts, Minister of Finance. M. DE SERE, Minister of the Marine. LI. Roy, Keeper of the Seals. enc ' i wep t ? lat i otO to ; Amend' projet• At wo" it ; ion coin' ' viz.... r the (Ili' ) ap poiAC nday• JAVCoURT, Minister of Marine. Di: SEIIRE, Do. of .TtistiCe. Louis, Do. of Finance. eft side-' lace, in., I, r Inusl. app eareu le, Wile° bould 10 a Septet here will. mittee• ~, bearli receiv e ' Fors, 3enerals! the twtl 1 ^ S 5 Wit o f til e niC"e r,~ a rsliz ry Diwi G o veriv •play the Minister of the Interior appeared in the dress of a 1) (1011. M. Pasquier in his costume, as Keeper " 1 the Seals. " \ Royal Ordonnance, dated the 17th instant, s off the state of siege in which the fortresses <in the Northern and Eastern frontiers were placed (luring the Military Occupation. DEFERRBD STOCK. Of the 22d March, 1817, 75 f. 75c. 22d Sept. 1817, 92 , 1 March, 1818, 71 f. 75c. 22(1 Sept. 1818, '' MADRID. Dec. 15 —The greatest tranquillity P►evails in this capital." SUN-OFFICE, HALF-PAST ONE. `We have just received the Paris Papers of Mon 'l.4), last. It is singular that not only are they "mpletely silent as to any change of Ministry, hlt they even mention the names of persons hold -I'4; Ministerial Departments, as if they were still in the full exercise of their funtions. The fol lowing are extracts : " PARIS, DEC. 28.—Saturday evening, the King transacted business successively with their Excel lencies M. Laine, Minister of the Interior, and the Count de Cazes, Minister of General Police. " His Majesty heard Mass yesterday in his Ipartments, and then received the Nf!apolitan and Spanish Ambassadors, several Ministeis, and Marshals, a great number of Peers of France, beputies, Lieutenant-Generals, and civil and mi litary Officers. " The Duke of Gloucester has arrived at Paris with his suite. " The Duke de Richelieu, President of the Council of Ministers, has been seriously indis- Posed since Saturday, but be was a little better Yesterday. " The Prince de Talleyrand was at the King's . Court yesterday. " Marshal Gouvion Saint Cyr, the Minister at War, gave a splendid dinner on Saturday, at Which were present a great number of Members of the two Chambers, Officers, and Functionaries. ." NUREMBERG, Dec. 20.—Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg intends to prolong his stay with his Ltuily, at Coburg, till March next, when his Royal highness proposes to return to England. " VIENNA, Dec. 16.--The Emperor of Russia *mends, it is said, to quit this Capital next Tuesday, and to return to Russia by the viay of koravia and Gallicia. " Bavaria is understood to hove refused to ac rept the proposed bases of an arrangement with It has been reported in some of the Morning papers of this day, that M. DE CAzu is to be at t he head of the new French Ministry, and we have 4 inc e received a confirmation of the statement from t he best authority. We can therefore venture to assur e our Readers of the fact. The subordinate rrangements are, perhaps, not so fully settled, according to the most probable reports and trlnjectures, the following are likely to be the other assignments of official employment : Private accounts, however, state the following a rrangements to be more probable, all admitting The fact that M. DE CAze is to be Prime Minister, F The Times says that JAUCOURT is to be Minister "f Foreign Affairs, and Admiral TauGuer Minis ter of Marine. IV e have no further observations to make on t his extraordinary Revolution in the Ministry of F rance beyond what we yesterday submitted to (41 1 - Readers. We must repeat, however, that the ludde n alteration of affairs in the French Govern- Ittent portends nothing calculated to strengthen the confidence of the people in the stability of the Throne in France, or to persuade the other Mowers of Europe that more formidable Revolts lions are not likely to disturb its peace and seen qty. it, may truly be said of this unexpected tweet, in the words of the Poet, that, " It is too rash, too unatlvied, too sudden, " Too like the lightning, which (loth cease to be, " Ere one can say—it lightens." Ttie FUNDS.—This morning a considerable euetnation took place in the Stocks ; Consols for the Account have been done at 79i, but fell to 7 9i, still the Market looks exceedingly well, the 'Whole of the Jew interest having been buying Inth yesterday afternoon and this morning to an I mmense amount, which has caused this advance. Commissioners were served generally by the 30 bhers, and gave for Reduced 77i. No Express horn Fiance hos been received this morning. The Duk e o f W ELLINGTON has commenced his li btiee at the Ordnance OiEce. SHIP NEWS. BRIDLINGTON.—On Saturday last, a ketch sloop, front Dundee to Hull, was run down a little to the northward of Flamborough Head, and sunk, by a light brig, who left them without offering them any assistance. The crew, 'with difficulty, got into their boat, and were taken up by a smack. PotiTsmotiTtr, Dec. 30.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Tagus to the Eastward, to be paid' off. RAMSGATE, Dec. 30.—A rudder has been landed here this !twining, supposed to belong , to the Jouge Eheardius, MOLDER, from Antwerp to London, which was lost on the 27th inst. on the Kentish Knock. DEAL, DEC. 30.—Arrived and remains, the Active, NA ZER, from Jamaica. FIVE o'CLoctc—Wind N.—The outward• bound are getting under weigh. CUSTOMS LIST. Entered Inwards, Dec. So.—Amphitrite, Murdoch, Tenc riffe ; Richard Plaskett, 'Fully, Odessa; Vrow Jantina, Panja, Groningen ; Hoop, Styntjes, do.; Ann, Reynolds, Bombay; Mary, Jefferson, Brazils; Clio, Richardson, Demerara; Juffer Harmina;• Viesser, Norden ; William Pitt, Cunningham, Quebec; Silver Eel, Breansma, Worcurn; Twee Gebroeders, De Jonge, do. ; Goe6 Hoop, Smit, Groningen ; Centurion, Mead, Calcutta, Entered Outwards,Dec. 30.—FairEllen,Briggs, Dotninica; . Robert, Finch, Tiieste ; •T Hanna, Arnie, Copenhagen; Jane and Matilda, Chandler, St. Lucas; Concordia, Berg, Bar . (Aorta. Cleared Ordwards, Dec. 30.—Tel us, Chalton, Pernambuco ; Rambler, Knight, Smyrna; Lowther Castle, Mortlock,China ; Essex, Nib et, do. New Orleans Papers to the 4th November ar rived this morning : (Front the New Orleans Chronicle of the 2d Nov.) WASHINGTON, OCT. 25.--It is conjectured here that Spain has already permitted her hands to be tied by Great Britain as to Flo r id a . T o Spain the cession would he no injury ; to Great Britain it would have interesting, if not formi dable, bearings. The accounts in the letters from Jamaica, brought by the Larne stoop of war, are to the 15th November. horn Kingston. No Newspa p,•rs have been teeeived by this conveyance ; but we find by the letters which have come to baud, that the Legislature was opened on the 24th Oc tober, in a Speech from the Governor. The island in general was sickly. It had been in •many places inundated by heavy rains which had fallen for many days. The communication with the interior from Kingston had been suspended,andin consequence the packet, which was to have sailed the 16th November, was postponed until the 23d, when it was supposed that the communica tion would he,again opened. A letter of the latest date from Kingston mentions, that on the Saint Andrew's mountains the rain has fallen in the greatest q'etantities, anti that the people there had suffered more than in any other situation. The Sybil frigate was to sail from Kingston on the 20th November, for Vera Cruz, and was to take specie on hoard. Private, letters from Calcutta, to the 29th of July have been received in the City, and by them we learn, that several ships had been taken up there for the purpose of forwarding reinforce ments to Ceylon. Although the military there were getting the better of the natives, still fur ther supplies were considered necessary. Letters from Rio Janeiro to the 14th October are in town, but they contain no other than commercial information. Trade was extremely hat there. The Archduke MAXIMILIAN of Austria, and suite, arrived at Plymouth on Thursday evening. Ou Christmas-day his imperial Highness attend ed divine service at the Roman Catholic, Chapel, Storehouse, morning and evening, where he was received with due respect by the Rev. Mr. SPOONER, and placed by him in the Bishop's chair within the sanctuary. The Sophia sloop of war, Captain Sir WILLIAM WISEMAN, is ordered to proceed without delay to St. Helena, with dispatches for Sir HuesoN Lowe. As the destination of this vessel was fixed for Jamaica, it is said the dispatches must be of great importance to render any deviation necessary. Yesterday a Ballot was held at the East India House, for the Election of a Director, in the room of JOHN Lumsn'EN, .E..q deceased. At six o'clock the glasses were closed and delivered to the Scrutineers, % , rho reported the Election to have fislien on WILLIAM TAYLOR MONEY, Esq.— The numbers were—Mr. MONEY, 627 ; Mr. PRES COT, 334 ; Mr. lAVENS►IAW, 524. Four hundred and thirty-two packs of foreign playing-cards were seized last week on board of a smuggling vessel off Harwich, and burnt by order of the Commissioners of Stamps. This - morning, between tour and five o'clock, a dreadful and alarming fire broke out at the house and shop of Mr. READY, • oilman, Swan-alley, East Smithfield. On the premises lay a quantity of gunpowder, which in less than an hour blew up with a dreadful explosion ; they had no time to remove it, through the rapidity of the flames. The shop and warehouses are entirely consumed. The engines were playing at ten o'clock this morning. Happily no lives were lost, neither any one hurt, as we could learn. It is not yet known how the fire was occasioned. We are sorry to find' that the contagious fever i,s still on the increase at Aberdeen ; but the Coal. mittee having, through the kind interference of the LOUD LIEUTENANT Of the County, procured the use of the Barrack Hospital, in addition to the House of Recovery formerly fitted up, they trust SOOll to be able to give a wore favourable report. THE THEATRE. DP.URY-LANE.—The Manager last night, in compliance with what appeared to be the general wish of the Public, has withdraw!s the new Pan tomime. The three pieces that were repre sented last night, were Barmecide, Lock and .Key, and Falls of Clyde. The first tWo Dra mas experienced the same favourable recep tion which they have hitherto obtained ;. but on the commencement of the last there was a consi derable disturbance, and a demand for that very Pantomime which had been withdrawn in submis sion to what seemed to be the general will.' This tumult continued during the first act, but as it appeared to arise from mere caprice and wanton ness, the Manager very properly did not come forward, and it at length subsided duting the second, at the conclusion of which the audience quietly dispersed. REGISTER OF FASHION. ARRIVALS.—Count and Countess I.leven, from Paris; the Earl of Harcourt, from his seat, Nuntham, Oxfordshire; Earl Lauderdale, from Oatlands; Sir David and Lady Baird, at Cook's Hotel, from Berks; Lord Mvanley, from Oatlands ; Captain and Mrs. Seymour, from Eaton, Hants; Mr. and Mrs. Littledale, at their house in Portland-place. Yesterday morning, may in full bloom was ga thered from the hedges near Charlton, Woolwich. SEIZURE op GUNPOWDER.-10 consequence of this Officers of the Thames Police receiving in formation that a great quantity of gunpowder was concealed in a brig lying on the River Thames, off Dartford Creek, and which was sus u.cted to have been smuggled from the Dart ford Mills, they instantly proceeded to the Spot they were directed to, and accordingly found a brig answering the description, heavily laden with gunpowder, which they seized, and delivered to the proper authorities. AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATII.—A few days ago a young man was brought to Shadwell Police Office, on a charge of bastardy, by the Overseers of Poplar, and the charge being proved against him, he was set at large on certain con ditions—namely, either to marry the unfortunate girl, or to allow so much per week for the main tenance of the child ; the latter he preferred, and for the purpose of evading both the parish and the, girl, he entered on board a ship which was about to sail yesterday morning ; as he was pro ceeding towards the ship with some luggage, on his arrival opposite the 'workhouse which would be the destined asylum of the girl by his absence, he dropped down and instantly' expired. His body was taken into the workhouse for a Coro nor's Inquest. MELANCHOLY, CIRCUMSTANCE. Miss EMMA BROWN, a young Lady, not 20 years of age, and entitled to a considerable fortune when she be came of age, niece to Mr. Ashman, silversmith and pawnbroker, in the Strand, but who resided with her grandmother, Mrs. Ashman, 30, Fea therstone-buildings, Somers s town, met with a melancholy, though at the same time apparently trifling accident, yesterday se'nnight, whilst wash ing a small slip of flannel, in which there hap pened to be a rusty needle ; it entered her thumb, in which it broke. It was thought not to be of any serious consequence at the tisne, but next day mortification took place. Medical resource was unavailing, and she expired on Friday, much lamented by a numerous circle of friends. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—Monday evening, about 7 o'clock, as the Rev. DANIEL PARKES, of Charles-street, Hatton-garden, was going along High -street, Bloomsbury, in his way borne from Oxford-street, lie tees unfortunately run over by a horse, running at full speed, with the shafts of a chaise-cart hanging loose in the harness ; his head was dreadfully fractured. He was carried to the Middlesex Hospital, where he lingered in the greatest agony until yesterday morning, when he expired. SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A CHILD.—On Tuesday a Gentleman walLing thrinigh Hyde Park, near the Spring, a short distance from the Magazine, saw a bundle of something, which was partly covered will) a quantity of hay ; he took tip the bundle and opened it, and, to his no little sur prize, found an infant child, apparently not more than a tew days old, quite dead. He applied to one of the Park constables, and informed him of the circomstamse, and the body was removed to a pul►lic-house for an inquest. DEAD 80D1E5...-111 the night of Thursday se'nnight a post-chaise was stopped near Dartford by the keeper of Dartford Blidewell and assist ants, when, on searching the chaise, they found the boolies'of a lad seventeen years of age, and of an infant, that had been recently disinterred. Three men who were with the bodies were se cured ; and, on inquiry, the corpse cif the boy proved to be that of Henry, son of Mr. Strood, landlord of the King of Prussia, at Gravesend, which had been interred at Milton on the 15th instant. Tuesday se'nnight, Mr. ROBINSON, Midship man of the Severn, stationed at Broadstairs for the prevention of smuggling, fell over the Cliff at a short distance from that place, and was taken tip dead. JAMES ST EW AR T, a seaman belonging to the some ship, met with a si milar accident, but not with the like fatal result ; he is, however, not expected to live. We are happy to learn no more lives were lost in the dreadful catastrophe at Poplar. The work men succeeded in digging to the 'bottom of the well, and the whole of the men are employed as usual. Mr. BROADHURST and PATRICK DRASCOL are as well as can be expected ; the lat ter bas a wife and several children. Yesterday morning some villains contrived to enter the dwelling-house of Mr. Brown, No. IS; Heath -street, Commercial-road, by means of false keys, during be absence of the family they robbed the place of plate and articles of wearing apparel, Consisting of silk dresses, shawls, handkerchiefs, &c to a great amount, and a Bank of England note for 2001. Tuesday night, some villains broke into the Scots Chapel in Crown -court, Russell -street, Co vent-garden, and stole a plated basin, a silver spoon, seven or eight yards of linen, and other articles. LITERARY REVIEW. REFORM 'WITHOUT INNOVATION ; or, CURSORY THOUGHTS on the only practicable REFORM of PAR LIAMENT, consistent with the existing Laws, and the Spirit of the Constitution.* As this is the age of political speculatio democratical clamour, tending to the danger of destroying THE CONSTITUTION, under pretence of reforming it, we feel it to be our duty to drAw the attention of our Readers to this interesting and valuable Tract. We took notice of it some time ago, and extracted a part of its contend but, not to break the chain of its reasoning, we. now deem it proper to present the whole to the Public. It was written by a Gentleman independent in mind and fortune, whose sole objects are the pOrity of Parliament, and the consequent welfare and hap piness of the People. The . only Reform of Par liament that ought really to be adopted, is - a strict adherence toTHE LAW as it stands, and as it is fully explained, illustrated, and demonstrated in the work before us. The Author has supported his principles, sentiments and ; counsels, with so much strength, perspicuity, and good sense, that we have only to refer the Reader to the Tract itself. Convinced that it ought to be circulated throughout the Empire at large, and read by all people, in hider to put an end to delusive• theories, impracticable projects, and ruinous innovations, we shall print an additional number of our Papers this day, earnestly tecomn►ending the Work to the attention of Ministers, whose duty we conceive it to be to use their influence in promoting the diffusion of it to ail quarters, in order to enlighten every class of the com munity, on a subject so important, and as it may convince them of the fully, as well as the danger, of listening to the specious pretences, insidious sophisms, and clamorous demands for Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage. " The public mind being at this moment great ly agitated, ou account of certain abuses, gene rally uttderstootl to have taken place in the ado& nistration of certain departments of the State, it has been thence concluded, 'that a considerable portion, not to say the whole, of the evils com plained of, has arisen from a defective representa tion of the democracy in the lower 1 - louse of Par liament ; and a general outcry has been conse quently raised, in almost every part of the king dom, for such a reform in that representative body, as shall bring it as nearly as Erosible to, what is termed, the true and genuine Spiro of the British Constitution. To this cod various dis cordaot,and impracticable plaits have been at dif ferent periods proposed,' most, it not all, of them deemed by the more sober and enlightened part of the commouity completely wild and vi sionary ; unadapted, as well to the present con dition of things, as to the existing circumstances of the times; and so far front being applicable to the remedy of arty abuses, supposed to exist, as demonstrably to bring with them much greater mischiefs than those they are proposed to remove. One speculator in this line is for universal suf frage ; so that every male, from a certain age up wards, shall have a voice at the election of his department ; another is for the opening of all boroughs generally, not ouly to their residents, but their neighbourhood within certain limits; or without any limits at all, but those of the county in. which such boroughs chance to be situated ; another, for doing away- the boroughs altoge ther, and transferring the elective rights to the counties at large, &c. &c. In a vvord, to de tail all the plans of all the different projectors on this subject would alone occupy a volume of no inconsiderable rnagni , tide ; suffice it there fore to say, that they all appear, to the cool and reflecting mind, rash and impracticable in the ex treme ; and not a single one of them more likely to suit the fancies of the other Reformers, who, Llthough looking to the same professed end, are yet eager to proceed to it by far different routes,, than the present existing state of things, under all its pretended circumstances of abuse and mis management. With respect to the supposed cor ruption of Parliament, partly attributed to the influence of the Crown, and partly w the Borough System, an unprejudiced and consiutrate mart would naturally say„, first ascertain the facts on which you found your conclusions, and do not lay down premises which may be afterwards de. monstrated to be fallacious, and then -argue from them as if they were proved. - Let it be in the first place considered, that the Crown having the disposal of animmense revenue, dispetseil through every department of the State, must necessarily, and in the very nature of things,. have a consider able in fl uence over those departments, in. ail their several branches : and, in what manner, if it be deemed an evil, such evil can be remedied, must remain with the proposers of Relorrn to suggest. Would they annihilate the revenue and resources altogether ? or* throw the direction of them into the hands of the aristocracy, or democracy ? or how else would they dispose of them ? ‘Vithin no very long space of time, restrictions have been laid upon the Royal Prerogative, and various de scriptions of people disfranchised of their rights, either to sit in Parliament, or to give their voices fur Representatives in it, on account of their supposed connection with the inirnediate servants of the Crown ; and had not the increased Reve nues of the State occasioned a proportional in crease lii the number of those employed in their collection, as well as of those through whom 4 ' If this most interesting Tiact should excite that. atten• tion in the Public to which it is so well entitled, and there should be an increased demand for our Paper, we shall deem it our duty to reprint it in a future numberf conceiving that we can hardly fill our columns with matter hetter calculated to quiet the minds of the People, and to ht smote the interest, of the Country.